If a font
is installed on a client computer, it is available in the drop-down
list in Designer. If the font is not installed, it is necessary
to specify the font name manually. The “Permanently replace unavailable
fonts” option in Designer can be off. Otherwise, when the XDP file
is saved in Designer, the substitution font name is written to the
XDP file. This means that the printer-resident font is not used.
To design a form that uses printer-resident fonts, choose a typeface
name in Designer that matches the fonts that are available on the
printer. A list of fonts that are supported for PCL or PostScript
are located in the corresponding device profiles (XDC files). Alternatively,
font mapping can be created to map nonprinter-resident fonts to
printer-resident fonts of a different typeface name. For example,
in a PostScript scenario, references to the Arial font can be mapped to
the printer-resident Helvetica typeface.
Two types of OpenType fonts exist. One type is a TrueType OpenType
font that PCL supports. The other is CFF OpenType. PDF and PostScript
output supports embedded Type-1, TrueType, and OpenType fonts. PCL
output supports embedded TrueType fonts.
Type-1 and OpenType fonts are not embedded in PCL output. Content
that is formatted with Type-1 and OpenType fonts is rasterized and
generated as a bitmap image that can be large and slower to generate.
Downloaded or embedded fonts are automatically substituted when
generating PostScript, PCL, or PDF output. This means that only
the subset of the font glyphs that are required to properly render
the generated document is included in the generated output.
For information about creating form designs for the Output service,
including handling fonts, see Designing Forms for LiveCycle Output.
